Edit a designer-owned SKU before it is approved

Learn who can change an unapproved designer-created SKU and how to unblock edits by other users.

1. Until a designer-created SKU is approved into the catalog, it is edit-locked to its creator.

2. The SKU update authorization explicitly rejects any edit to a designer-owned SKU by a different user — including users holding the Catalog Manager role.

3. The options are: have the creator make the change, or approve the SKU into the catalog first (approval transfers it to org ownership, after which normal role rules apply).

4. For regular catalog SKUs, edits require Catalog Manager, Production Designer or MES Admin at the org level, or that role in every business unit the targeted SKUs belong to.

5. Holding the role in one business unit does not grant edits on another BU's SKUs, and a mixed selection is rejected as a whole: if any SKU in the selection is designer-owned and belongs to another user, the entire update is refused rather than partially applied.